similar to: Ross Ihaka's reflections on Common Lisp and R

I read this paper <https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/Compstat-2008.pdf> and haven't been able to find out what happened - I have seen some sporadic mention in message groups but nothing definitive. Does anyone know? [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

When it was being actively worked on, it had the advantage of existing. Hadley On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Kenny Bell <kmbell56 at gmail.com> wrote: > Why is the described system preferable to Julia? > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, 4:50 AM peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On 05 Aug 2016, at 06:41 , Andrew Judson <ajskim at gmail.com>

No. Hadley On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Kenny Bell <kmbell56 at gmail.com> wrote: > Is it conceivable that Julia could be ported to use R syntax in a way that > would allow the vastly larger numbers of R programmers to seamlessly switch? > Or equivalently, could an iteration of R itself do this? > > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, 9:00 AM Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at

Why is the described system preferable to Julia? On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, 4:50 AM peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 05 Aug 2016, at 06:41 , Andrew Judson <ajskim at gmail.com> wrote: > > > I read this paper > > <https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/Compstat-2008.pdf> and > > haven't been able to find out what happened - I

But you can easily fall back to R from within Julia; see http://juliastats.github.io/RCall.jl/latest/ On Aug 5, 2016 1:27 PM, "Hadley Wickham" <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote: > No. > > Hadley > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Kenny Bell <kmbell56 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Is it conceivable that Julia could be ported to use R syntax in a way > that

Is it conceivable that Julia could be ported to use R syntax in a way that would allow the vastly larger numbers of R programmers to seamlessly switch? Or equivalently, could an iteration of R itself do this? On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, 9:00 AM Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote: > When it was being actively worked on, it had the advantage of existing. > > Hadley > > On

John Fox (see below) raises important questions for the Lisp-stat community (and perhaps the R community) to consider. This message thread was not cross-posted to r-devel@lists.r-project.org, so I do so now. I have never been an active or particularly adept Lisp-stat programmer. But I have worked on or used several projects for which Lisp-stat seemed the ideal environment-- for implementing

I was obviously fascinated by Duncan's earlier message on RXLisp. I managed to build a working version of RXLisp for OS X, by some unabashed and rather uninformed hacking. I compiled XLISP-STAT using the gcc flags -fno-common and --no-cpp-precomp (not sure if they are necessary or not, they are part of an older hack). I "make libxlisp.so", using Duncan's replacement for the

Dear all, One of my friends asked me if it is possible to extract actual R function arguments literally (precisely, as strings). The reason is simple. He feels sometimes awkward to attach quotation marks :-). What he actually wants is to pass R command arguments to XLisp subroutines (He has been an enthusiastic XLisp user for a long time and still tends to use R as a wrapper to XLisp). Is it

Dear R users, I was trying to install the package RXLisp by Duncan Temple Lang on a MDK 9.1 Linux machine running R 1.8.0 installed from a RPM. Unfortunately I had a problem loading the shared library into R. Since I'm a Linux newbie I was not able to solve the problem. Maybe some of you can help me. First of all I downloaded the source archive for Xlisp-Stat and for the RXlisp package.

So far, I had made RXLisp by putting all foo.o from XLISP-STAT in an archive, and linking that into RXLisp.so. I have gotten somewhat further in using dynamic libraries. Here is what I now do. in XLS 1. Copy xlisp modifications from RXLisp 2. configure --host=powerpc-apple-darwin6.2 3. make libxlisp.so CC="gcc -fno-common -L/sw/lib -I/sw/include" 4. gcc -dynamiclib -flat_namespace

I have written some programs in Common Lisp and I have been using SAS to pipe those programs to my lisp compiler in batch mode by using the %xlog and %xlst SAS commands. I wonder if there is in R a similar way to pipe commands to LISP so that all my work would be concentrated in R even when I have to call a LISP program? I have looked at the foreign library but this seems to adjust data types not

Hi, this is not an R-help post, but I found this extract below that was written by a leading mathematician back in 1999 when he was talking about statistics and computing. I found it interesting to share and I ask your opinion do you think this still holds today or things have changed? Thanks. ?...we would also like to mention that in our opinion Mathematica provides an excellent and indeed

Ross Ihaka wrote to Tom Cook (who CCed it to me): > [ regarding "density" and "angle" for polygon hatching ] > > I have just found a student volunteer to do this. I will > know more about how long this will take in about a week. (Its not a > huge task, but the student make take while to up to speed on graphics.) Ross: You move fast! However, I'm in

It does look like Gentleman and Ihaka not only lied to the New York Times, but also to the New Zealand Herald and who knows who else. This is disgusting. The R programming language is the S programming language, and Gentleman and Ihaka are not the ones who designed it. http://thenewyorktimesissloppy.blogspot.com/

Hello everybody, I observed some strange behavior of R (0.64.1/Linux 2.0.25) when trying to use FORTRAN-libraries. I downloaded "ALGORITHM AS 304" from StatLib. All I changed at the code, was to substitute "REAL"-routines by "DOUBLE PRECISION". Compiling went o.k. ... > g77 -fpic -O2 -shared -o rtest.o fisher.f ("g77 --version" gives 2.7.2.1)

Do you know what I really, really miss in R that I took fopr granted in my XLisp-Stat programming days??? The ability to easily create menus and dialog boxes. I could write little applications and give them out to clients. It was wonderful. It would at least allow each person to begin to build one's own menu driven version. Just a thought!! Jeff > -----Original Message----- >

Hello all, There is currently a (very !) lively discussions happening around the web, surrounding the following topics: 1) Is R efficient? (scripting wise, and performance wise) 2) Should R be written from scratch? 3) What should be the license of R (if it was made a new)? Very serious people have taken part in the debates so far. I hope to let you know of the places I came by, so you might be

Hi, I am trying to read the "credit.lisp" file of the Japanese credit database in UCI repository, but it is in lisp format which I do not know how to read. I have not found how to do that in the foreign library http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Japanese+Credit+Screening <http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Japanese+Credit+Screening> Could anyone help me? Best

I want to find out what are the associations with another active record class. So If my class is as below: Class Component < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :branches end class Branch < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :component end and then I do Component.reflections[:branches].active_record I would expect that to be Branch but it is in fact Component. The inspection of